Updated on Jun 19 2018
The present repository contains the necessary information to reproduce the simulation experiment conducted by Splawinski et al. (under review). That experiment aims at assessing the relative risk of regeneration failure following successive disturbances in a variety of contexts.
The following provides a general description of the experiment and point to more detailed content that describes the simulation steps and data processing pipeline that allows to reproduce the experiment conducted by Splawinski et al. (under review). We strongly suggest that you get a look at this graphic illustration of the simulation and data processing pipeline, which will help you navigate the various scripts and input files needed to reproduce the experiment.
The study area is located east of Lake Mistassini, Quebec, Canada, just south of the northern limit of managed forest in Central Quebec. The total area is 1.2 Mha in size, excluding major water bodies.
The fire model is based on the simulation experiment described in Cyr et al. (2016). The core of the model is a cellular automaton of stochastic propagation of fires to neighbouring cells until a predefined fire size is reached.
Targetted fire regime are predefined by the user, i.e. that the length of the fire cycle (or average area burned annually) and fire size distribution must be provided. At this stage, fire spread probability is homogenous across all eligible (flammable) cells, although the current model structure could allows for differential fire spread probabilities. Only ignition probabilities currently vary among zones submitted to different fire regimes.